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REFUGEES
Why we should think twice before using the term ‘migrant’
Columbia Journalism Review, 20 October 2022
When Will Little Amal Find Her Mother?
The Nation,
28 September, 2022
In Trouble,
but Not Alone
Slate,
25 June 2018
The Lonesome Struggle of LGBTQ Refugees
Arrowsmith Journal,
5 October, 2021
The Story of an
Afghan Girl
The Nation,
16 August, 2021
When Refugees Are Women and Girls
 
Waterstones Blog
May 24, 2022
WAR, WOMEN & POLITICS
The Best Contemporary Iraqi Writing about War
 
Literary Hub,
12 October 2017
"Reporting on Afghanistan in the Shadow of the 'I'"
 
Los Angeles Review of Books, 1 February 2014 
"For Women Warriors, Deep Wounds, Little Care"
 
 The New York Times Op-Ed, 16 May 2008
 
"The Private War of Women Soldiers"
Salon.com, 2007  *Winner of James Aronson Award for Social Justice Journalism, 2007
"Covering Rape Responsibly"
 
Women's Media Center,
1 February 2013
 
"When Johnny Comes Marching In"
 The New York Times,
10 April 2009
"How to Lie With Statistics"
 
 Huffington Post,
20 March 2009
How to make #MeToo stick this time
 
CNN,
21 November 2017
"The Military Has a Man Problem"
 
Politico,
August 2015
"Violent Veterans: The Big Picture",
 Huffington Post,
14 January 2009
WRITING AND LITERATURE
"Why Argument Belongs in Fiction"
The Brooklyn Quarterly,
Fall 2013
"Tone Deaf: Learning to Listen to the Music in Prose"
Poets & Writers Magazine,
Nov/Dec 2001
"The Mnemonic Library: A Reading Experiment"
Blog posted on The Quivering Pen, David Abram's literary site, 8 May 2014
"The Frightened Muse"
Originally posted on Featurewell.com in 2001 and revised in 2006
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